To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, click the arrow on the player below. This month, Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Emma Thompson steals the new film version of “Brideshead Revisited.” As Lady Marchmain, the genteel but fierce matriarch of Eveyln Waugh’s story, she ...

Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that “Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be…while holding untenable opinions.” Which is a nice ...

To many contemporary viewers, “Brideshead Revisited” means not just Evelyn Waugh’s original novel but also memories of the celebrated 1980s television miniseries starring Jeremy Irons. It was quite ...

There’s no time like the first time, and so it is with “Brideshead Revisited.” If you saw the 1981 11-hour-long TV miniseries, a masterpiece, you may cringe at the thought of a feature-length remake.

Cineplexes this summer look a lot like classic television: Get Smart, Sex and the City, and Speed Racer all expanded half-hour TV shows to something closer to two hours. Now comes Brideshead Revisited ...

both Evelyn Waugh's novel and the 1981 PBS miniseries, Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited succeeds handily on its own terms. It lacks the visual pyrotechnics of Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, but ...

Why anyone thought it necessary to make another Brideshead Revisited is a mystery. The fondly regarded 1981 British television miniseries should have been the last word on Evelyn Waugh’s elegy to ...